Pagodas in play: China on the eighteenth-century Italian opera stage

Setting the stage. Eighteenth-century exoticism and China

China's journey from page to stage

Playing with dynasty : China in opera seria. China in early opere serie (1700-1725)

The enlightened imperial subject : Pietro Metastasio, L'eroe cinese (1752)

Playing with reform : China in comic opera. Islands of opportunity : Carlo Goldoni, L'isola disabitata (1757)

Rejecting false idols : Giambattista Lorenzi, L'idolo cinese (1767)

Women traveling in new lands : Giovanni Bertati, L'inimico delle donne (1771).